"Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good."

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian Novelist

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"Evil Dead film sounds like the Red Hood, but this time the bad red hood."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil."

David Sarnoff, American Inventor

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"Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

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"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."

Bryan Singer, American Director

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"There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is no possible source of evil except good."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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Buddha, Indian Leader

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"Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right."

"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."

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